Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday

2. Come On A Cone

also wtf is this

lol @ 'willful misreading'

well we already know "marilyn monroe", "starships" and "turn me on" suck, so preparing myself for another wildly inconsistent album

pretty interested in prod credits on this tho

i am sad about "roman in moscow"

the entire song just kinda sits there

― 3hunn O))) (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, March 20, 2012 11:01 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Where's the drop?

pretty interested in prod credits on this tho

http://nickidaily.com/2012/03/pink-friday-roman-reloaded-tracklist/

10. Starships (Produced by RedOne) 3:30
11. Pound The Alarm (Produced by RedOne and Carl Falk) 3:26
12. Whip It (Produced by RedOne) 3:16
13. Automatic (Produced by RedOne and Jimmy Joker) 3:18
14. Beautiful Sinner (Produced by Alex Da Kid) 3:47
15. Marilyn Monroe (Produced by JR Rotem) 3:16
16. Young Forever (Produced by Dr. Luke) 3:07

this section suddenly looking horrific

okay, 'beez in the trap' is just a reprise of 'did it on em'

What the heck is Beenie Man doing on there?

looking at that tracklist i'm honestly surprised she didn't try and pull some DOUBLE DISC sasha fierece shit, cuz that's basically what this album is -- i mean if anyone in music right now could get a label to shell out for something like that it would be her, and if you're just gonna stick all the rap tracks up front and all the cotton candy pop at the back you might as well put it on 2 discs

oh well... thought it was sorta weird that redone, like, fell off the map after 'fame monster' so i guess i'm interested in that stuff

What the heck is Beenie Man doing on there?

― MarkoP, Tuesday, March 20, 2012 10:38 PM (8 seconds ago) Bookmark

this is sort of bizarre considering nicki's stature in pop but it's not like it's unusual for her to do dancehall

i wouldn't be surprised if she grew up listening to beenie man a lot

2. Come On A Cone

also wtf is this
--3hunn O))) (J0rdan S.)

In fucking hysterics over this post

come? on a cone?

uh

well....I guess that at least explains what it means but uh, wow.

oh shit

i thought ppl liked redone's productions from 2011? (not that i am optimistic about it)

does that explain it? "my ice is so cold, come on a come"?

that clip is awful

ice cr?m, flop

so terrible

― flopson, Tuesday, March 20, 2012 10:28 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

except for the awful hook, i love it

I 've listened to it 15 times since yesterday

oh, IT SHOULD come on a cone--got it

gave it another chance, approximately as bad as i remembered it

lol otm

thats like, not really even suggestive at all in context, yet it's so crude and baffling as a song title. kind of the opposite of "suck my cockiness," which is as obvious as you could possibly imagine

so much of what nicki says is pretty much "i see what you were trying to do there but it just collapsed in on itself"

i am only three tracks in and my brain is already entirely like !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

oh fuck off chris brown

ugh here comes the redone section

i liked "whip it" better when it was "fuck u silly" >:(

13. Automatic (Produced by RedOne and Jimmy Joker) 3:18
14. Beautiful Sinner (Produced by Alex Da Kid) 3:47
15. Marilyn Monroe (Produced by JR Rotem) 3:16
16. Young Forever (Produced by Dr. Luke) 3:07

this section suddenly looking horrific

― lex pretend, Tuesday, March 20, 2012 11:25 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this section really is so fucking terrible

i am only three tracks in and my brain is already entirely like !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― lex pretend, Thursday, 29 March 2012 10:14 (1 hour ago) Bookmark

lol i had to press pause and take a minute to ~gather~ at this point tbh

near-unremitting dross after that tho :/

for real :/

but the opening few tracks!!!

oooohhhh dick in your face
oooohhhh dick in your face

had half-hoped for an so-to-speak 'imperial' album; i guess born out of expecting her to by now have fully grown into new popstar skin and jettisoned this "better to serve in harlem than reign in hell" mentality she secretly harbours

(ie. the whole forced faustian pact career narrative where she just wants to be a rapper, rapper dudes would never take her seriously, 'your love' blows up even though she hates it, she decides to let the big money do the talking etc)

but instead it's still so awkward *in terms of an album*; not even entertainingly schizo bipolar, just a lot of it middling and grimly chop-shopped

'gun shot' is p great once beenie turns up and it becomes more of a duet

i guess wanting an imperial album from a popstar is a super dated pursuit anyway tho, there'll be 4 hits off it and the rest is random stuff for random people who don't put their hands in their pocket. job done in industry terms

http://i.imgur.com/67Dhe.jpg

when i'm sitting with anna
i'm really sitting with anna
aint a metaphor, punchline
i'm really sitting with anna

i guess wanting an imperial album from a popstar is a super dated pursuit anyway tho, there'll be 4 hits off it and the rest is random stuff for random people who don't put their hands in their pocket. job done in industry terms

it's kind of like two EPs, one for people who like nicki when she's good and the other for people who like nicki when she's basic, with some half-assed r&b that surely no one actually goes to nicki for shoved in the middle, and then "gun shot" and "stupid hoe" tacked on to the end because you may as well if you're releasing that many songs.

i'm surprised no one's done it before really

oh my god i didn't see what was up with that picture for at least 15 seconds!

i don't think nicki has the wiring to make an 'event album' even on the functional level of rihanna or katy perry, let alone drake or any other rapper at her level of popularity. i barely can picture her listening to music, like, rapping and singing were things she just heard enough to pick up for herself and then ran with it. her records will forever be this sour squirrely cocktail of talent and second-guessing and dumb zany abandon.

doubtful to the extent rihanna & kp are wired for that sort of thing at all let alone to the extent it might be faulty like nicki's

feel p sure she has a fair grounding as a rap listener of the 90s ny variety, maybe not a student of the game like naming her top 5 boot camp klik but enough to ref biggie/busta/beanuts in non-obv ways. don't think any execs are begging her to put cam and nas on either

i also think she has a pride in her rapping that is not purely outta stage school, i reckon she will determinedly battle anyone if anyone actually were to do that sort of thing anymore

but i agree she probably doesnt tend to look at things in big picture terms yeah. altho it's not like there's any real reward in the music biz for it even if she did

yeah you're totally right and i was pushing too far in the opposite direction -- but i feel like there's some kind of weird "just put on a crazy wig and rap" blankness to what she does that is all the more offputting because she's not in the fembot puppet mold. obviously katy and rihanna get a lot of help in putting together tight little singles collections but the way they try to be everything to everyone isn't nearly as inherently scattershot as nicki's.

when i listen to "roman reloaded" (the song) all i can think about it is how little she actually rhymes sometimes (like seriously every line either ends with the same word or words that don't rhyme in the slightest) but nobody even seems to notice because her delivery throws you so far off the scent of the lazy/sloppy rapper archetype. it always drove me nuts that imo the catchiest four bars of her "monster" verse don't contain a single rhyme (rookie/pay/album out/climb it).

yeah i don't feel like i am being misled in those moments tho, i think it's calibrated for attention rather than sloppy - blame weezy for how it's evolved

'roman reloaded' isn't great anyhow but still i tend to hear it as uninspired rather than sloppy per se

not to hop in the trenches but re the 'monster' verse she is switching to conversational barbie character tbf (and she does rhyme climb it with climate next line)

also would you not say she's more "inherently scattershot" cos she has to inherently be more everything to more everyone than rih and kp ever do?

'gun shot' has melted my heart good and proper now

i dunno. rihanna is doing the reggae and the country adult contempo and the EDM and the swag R&B all back to back and it's still somehow not as flailing and rudderless as nicki just figuring out how many bars to sing and how many to rap in a given song.

i know i know climb it/climate but the way she finally stumbles on a rhyme with the 4th and 5th bars just makes me even more irritated about those 4 bars